[Pygar]

My love of Japanese monster movies and Ultraman shows actually led me into the J-horror thing in the first place, as i was digging around for laserdiscs and videoCDs in Chinatown years ago. I found a VCD of the original Ring, with a great cover of Sadako's eye on it. The owner of the shop said to me in cracked English, "You like scary movies?", and dug out Ring 2 for me as well!

I've been upto my neck in J-horror ever since.

While I still track Japanese horror carefully, the trail has lead me into the world of imported DVDs - the equally wonderful South Korean horrors, Thai horrors, older Japanese horror films, offbeat Japanese comedies (like Kamikaze Girls, or even Swing Girls), new samurai films (like Red Shadow, Azumi, Hidden Blade), the violent Korean black comedies (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance), Japanese killer schoolgirls (Sukeban Deka)....

...all kinds of stuff, old and new, that's miles away more interesting than anything on TV!